Fragments of a Homo erectus skull were among deposits of vertebrate fossils found when the Indonesian seafloor was being dredged for a construction project; This is the first time ...

New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 along ...

Two 325-million-year-old ctenacanth shark fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave shed light on ancient marine ecosystems.

Evidence from Khadir island in the Great Rann of Kutch suggests that long before the settlement of Dholavira, groups of ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

In the 1940s Fulco di Verdura transformed shells into exquisite brooches of gold and precious gems. Millicent Rogers got ...

The bodies were accompanied by silver, gold, ornaments and the shells of a tropical marine mollusk called a Spondylus — objects that the researchers say were "more valuable than gold" for the ...

Credit: Brian T. Huber/Smithsonian Institution Using tiny, fossilized shells recovered from ancient deep-sea sediments, the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates ...

Using a sophisticated statistical model, they reconstructed sea surface temperatures ... that reflect conditions in the ancient past. Carbonate shells dissolve if they settle into deep ocean ...

They lived off the sea, consuming oysters. Today, piles of ancient oyster shells are noticeable to people like Holland-Lulewicz, trained to see anomalies in soil layers. In some locations ...